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I naively assumed this would be about localised caching. You'd think straight-line distance would be a reasonable proxy for speed. Hence you could have * goog
by philipwhiuk 2y ago
I naively assumed this would be about localised caching. You'd think straight-line distance would be a reasonable proxy for speed.
Hence you could have
* google.com <LOC San Francisco>
* google.com <LOC London>
and pick the right one
but that's not really how it works at all :(
- nvy 2y agoI'd imagine that there are some sharp edge cases where a nearby straight-line distance is a suboptimal choice due to peculiarities of submarine cables or irregular point to point links of some other sort.
- ratorx 2y agoAnd that’s only on the physical layer. Then you’d get into the weird and wonderful world of BGP routing.